On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 05:43:53PM -0400, D-Man wrote: > Again, I recommend that you install minicom, or some similar tool, so > you can interactively see what your ISP does when you dial in. Once > you know what prompts your ISP sends, then you can make a simple chat > script that will work. Without a more configurable tool, I doubt > you'll get very far. (I'm sure wvdial is a great program -- when it > works. It only understands the common situations it's authors have > experience with and can't be configured to deal with others.) Not true ... wvdial can be told what to look for regarding login and password prompts (rtfm). minicom is a great tool to discover such information. Having said that I'm not a big wvdial fan :) but I had to use it recently on a redhat box. The error messages leave something to be desired ... -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Ltd. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:nnorman@micromuse.com | -- Patton
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